Arc 18Chapters 426–450
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Xu Duoduo received weapons from Chen Xiaofei and Bai Shu while Qin Luo playfully took more weapons from them. After the Rose Squad arrived, she kissed Qin Luo before he returned to fighting, leaving him flustered when their teammates teased him over the Earpiece.
Qin Luo and the other soldiers fought millions of zombies in Q City as reinforcements arrived and a livestream showed the battle to people across the bases. Qin Luo suspected Headquarters had a reason for broadcasting the fight, and Wang Weihu asked whether trouble had broken out abroad.
Qin Luo and his teammates joked about the worsening international situation, then rested after a night of fighting before waking to prepare for the next mission. The chapter ended with Chen Xiaofei and Bai Shu brawling in the morning while Qin Luo, Xu Duoduo, and Wang Weihu watched.
After Qin Luo and the others regrouped, they discovered Wang Weihu had a high fever and arranged for him to rest while the team continued its mission. Chen Xiaofei stayed to care for him as Xu Duoduo and Bai Shu headed out.
Qin Luo and the other fighters continued battling an exhausting zombie horde as increasingly common six-star fusion monsters threatened the teams. Xu Duoduo defeated an intelligent, head-covered toad fusion monster on the live broadcast, revealing the power of her spatial abilities.
After the Second Zombie Suppression Operation succeeded, Qin Luo checked on the recovering Wang Weihu and gathered mutant cores with Xu Duoduo. As the team prepared to leave the ruined Q City, Xu Duoduo complained about being taken away from the shiny cores, and Qin Luo approached Chen Xiaofei and Bai Shu as they struggled to drink bitter herbal tea.
Qin Luo and his companions drank bitter herbal cooling tea distributed to prevent heatstroke, with Chen Xiaofei and Bai Shu tricking Qin Luo into tasting it. After everyone drank, Bai Shu searched his tablet for information about the tea’s developer while the group waited together.
Qin Luo and his companions returned to H City Survivor Base on July 20, 2030, after a relaxed journey together. There, Du Chunjiang told Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo that extreme heat had caused a wave of illnesses and left the base short-staffed and low on medicine.
Xu Duoduo searched her Rubik's Cube Space for herbs and mutant seeds needed for cooling tea as Qin Luo and Du Chunjiang discussed the deadly heat and dangerous mutant ducks. After 3A received payment for its supplies, Du Chunjiang discovered Xu Duoduo had left her a gift and learned that it was her birthday, then prepared to help celebrate.
After waking alone, Xu Duoduo found Qin Luo’s reassuring note and celebrated her growing financial security before watching footage of 3A’s successful operation. When forum users attacked the Cheetah Squad and White Dove Squad as freeloaders, she defended them, causing the forum to erupt as readers flocked to see her.
Xu Duoduo’s friends secretly prepared to celebrate her birthday, which she had forgotten, while pretending they were heading to Da Qiao’s place for a commission. They set out together as Qin Luo hurried to collect her gift, leaving Xu Duoduo unaware of the surprise.
Xu Duoduo arrived at Da Qiao’s home and discovered that Qin Luo and their friends had arranged a surprise birthday celebration for her. Qin Luo gave her roses and a chainsaw-engraved car key, while more guests arrived and Da Qiao prepared extra seating.
Qin Luo surprised Xu Duoduo with roses and a customized combat vehicle for her birthday, while the group discussed its features and their mutant cores. Xu Duoduo celebrated with her friends as guests arrived, and Mu Enya prepared to leave on a new mission the next day.
Xu Duoduo celebrated her birthday with friends and received three wishes, while the group discussed worsening monsters and the need to strengthen their fighters. The party ended with Xu Duoduo and Qin Luo planning to leave together, and Qin Luo promising she could touch his tail as much as she wanted.
After Da Qiao’s birthday party, Chen Xiaofei persuaded Bai Shu and Wang Weihu to leave with him for their medicine shots. Xu Duoduo and Qin Luo slipped away together, but a message left Qin Luo jealous and demanding to know what Xu Duoduo had done earlier that day.
Xu Duoduo reassured Qin Luo that he was the only one she liked, and he reluctantly forgave her for sending other girls heart emojis. As extreme heat worsened, the group discussed its deadly effects and the growing disorder worldwide.
As heat and conflict worsened, 3A trained at Headquarters and heard that Fang Ming’s data was active abroad. Just as the team left the training building, a sudden meteorite attack forced everyone to take shelter, and Bai Shu saw that the flaming meteorites were more dangerous than before.
After a meteor shower devastated the base, Qin Luo, Xu Duoduo, and their teammates rescued the injured and extinguished fires, including at the Childcare Center. They returned from cleanup amid extreme heat, then received an urgent mission to the border defense area.
3A set out for a border mission after the recent meteorite crisis, joking and sharing watermelon during the journey. The team learned that other squads were joining them and worried about worsening meteorite strikes as they left the base.
Qin Luo’s team left H City Survivor Base and drove through the extreme heat toward the border, fighting off mutant animals that attacked them along the way. Their journey continued amid joking over the team channel, while Wang Weihu tried to stop the Charge Squad from revealing an embarrassing encounter.
Qin Luo’s team reached the border defense line near Y City Base, where they met the soldiers and prepared to support them. Qin Luo reunited with Drunkard, a veteran from his past undercover mission, and began explaining their connection to Xu Duoduo.
3A arrived at a sparse border base, where Xu Duoduo and Chen Xiaofei met the young soldier Yu Jia over noodles and learned about the water shortage. When the alarm sent everyone toward a clash with the people across the border, Chen Xiaofei carried the slow-running Yu Jia, who explained he had only recently awakened his ability after receiving the Medicine.
Qin Luo and the reinforcing combat teams launched a counterattack against the Water Monkeys, using their abilities to overwhelm the enemy and avenge the Border Patrol Combat Team’s losses. The battle ended in a complete rout, with no enemy escaping.
After 3A’s counterattack, Xu Duoduo helped collect the defeated enemies’ weapons and ammunition, but Bai Shu discovered that the bodies might carry a virus. The team disposed of the corpses, collected blood for research, and reinforced the border before leaving.
After returning from battle, Bai Shu identified a dangerous novel virus among the people across the Border Defense Line, while the team discovered a bottomless meteorite crater and struggled through extreme heat. They returned to base after Yu Jia nearly died of heat exhaustion, with the virus threat and crater still unexplained.